Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-08
DEMOCRATS AND DEMOCRATS

| Germ. There are Democrats ana Demo
Gratis in Texas; but it is to Democrats
who will be Democrats whether proh!bi-
ton be carried or lost in Texas, that TIE
| GAZETTE addresses itself, and with whom
it is the pride and the pleasure of this
| journal to affiliate. The Democrats of
! Texas have no need to look to Iowa or
| Kansas for instruction as to what Consti-
tutes Democracy, or as to what makes s
test OF party fealty, especially as we haze
had it dilned into our ears for weeks
that Texas should not indulge in impor-
ta1ions from states that disfran-
chised ex- Confederates and produced the
bloody shirt Tuttles OF the land. The
Texas Democratic platform is about SIS
competent to instruct Texas Democrats
and to promulgste tests for Texas Demo
Gratis as are states up north which con-
struct platforms to suit the exigencies OF
the occasion. Texas Democrats have
been always taught to believe that in
purely state concerns the state is supreme
authority, and Democrats who are Dem
ocrats despite the issue Of the pending
prohibition canvass will be con-
tent to look to the Texas Democratic
platform fer Democratic instruction
and for Democratic test, and the Demo
cratic platform Of Texas declares
il effect that mans vote on
the pending prohibition question is
rot a test OF mis- Democracy. This
should be and will be enough for Texas
Democrats who donot make their Demo
cracy subservient to their views and
their wishes concerning measure which
q Democratic convention OF Texas de-
clGres in effect Is non partisan.
Not only does the Democracy OF Texas
speak with plain meaning on this
question, but the Republicans Of
Texas bear testimony to the non
partisan character OF the prohibition
smendmenr. Democrats should not be
deceived; were there any Democracy in
prohibition or ani-prohibition, cur
friends, the enemy, would soon indicate
where Democracy was located by rushing
en- masse 10 the oHer side. How can that
position be maintained as Democratic
waich attracts the support Of Quincy,
Cochran, DeGress, Newcomb, Melvin
Wade ct a.? And how can that position
be maintained which has the support Of
Dohonev, of Norton, Rector, Elan
nagan, ct al? Up IN North Texas
there are men who resolved to sup
port 10 Democrat who fsvors prohi-
bition, and down in South Texas James
P. Newcomb is saying: "In Texas proRi-
Jri5n mans dcmocrary and dlp,ryu.y
mans orob5Hi.n. We have nc difficulty
in k7owfno .,,, adrc,saa,-le4 rs shoot
our bullets straight at its eye.u What
follv. then. for Democrats. who are sucn
regardless Of the fate Of tbfs amendment.
70 lend their countenapce and aid 70 e.
forts when can only tend TO erobitter and
disintegrate the Democratic party? VIII
not the Democracy be here after the 4ta
dav of August AID will if not need bo.h
REAGAN and Mills both Ross and Mayev?
THIS prohibition question is one for the
people Of Texas TO decide. irrespectiye of
politics or religion. It's neither par
tfsaD nor a moral question or test. lis
sn economic Question and the people
will say BY their ballots whether prohibi-
+ion i .lserad hannfcioI or burtfuI RI
Texas; and when the canvass il ended